THE NEW YORKER trial on September 23rd, four days after President McKinle}'s funeral in Can- ton. With the greatest display of re- luctance, two elderly Buffalo attor- neys-Loran L. Lewis and Robert C. Titus, both retired justices of the State Supreme Court-had accepted appoInt- ment by the court to represent the de- fendant. They did not take the case un- til two days before the trial, and they went into court without anything re- sembling a defense. To be sure, they were severely handicapped in two other respects. For one thing, Czolgosz said he did not believe in courts or lawyers, and would not talk to them. For another, they were confronted with the unani- mous opinion of the medical experts that Czolgosz was sane. When the govern- ment rested its case, the defense lawyers admitted that they had no witnesses. Czolgosz, who didn't show the shghtest interest in the proceedings, refused to take the stand The only pretense of a defense was a feeble, rambling speech by Lewis, referring to his client as "a man [who] has stricken down the be- loved President of this country in broad daylight" and concluding with a eulo- gy of the President as "one of the no- blest men God ever made. . . [whose] death was the saddest blow to me that has occurred in many years." The pros- ecutor himself could not have more forcibly impressed the viciousness of the crIme upon the jury. Although Lewis did assert in his speech that the jury should ponder whether Czolgosz was sane and, there- fore, responsible, neither he nor Titus objected to the haste of Czolgosz's men- tal examination or requested a postpone- ment to permit a more thorough one. As the district attorney pointed out to the jury, a defendant is presumed sane until proved otherwise, and no such proof was attempted. The defense law- yers frankly admitted in court that they had done little but stand by to see that Czolgosz received the more or less rou- tine rights prescribed by law. This was in sharp contrast to the dogged, though futile, ten-and-a-half-week courtroom battle that defense attorneys had wagéd in 1881 over the sanity of Charles J. GUIteau, the assassin of Presi- dent Garfield. Czolgosz was convIcted on the second day, after the trial had lasted a total of eight hours and twenty- six minutes, including the time it took to impanel the Jury. The jury brought in the verdict after thIrty-four minutes, and Czolgosz received it without any show of emotion. No appeal was filed. The trial was the occasion for gener- ous self-acclaim by the bar, and there .1 1111\ .' ....:".,. :, .,\ .'.,.:'. -1 Î \J- (J' I OR&M& " d O H :.J ," rr -...j. 50 PROOF +\ K --I R{A}J-. "I '.... );)J W . 'I 'iF o PROOF lUll BLAf:KBERRY I F LAVORED J.. aa:f.'.'IIJ'6 1 J. II ., . I f ,....>':: ê \ . : . .:.:.::;::II I I . :\ ':::"'1 '" - _ I - .,"; - ......., . ....1\ Ijó " . ;,:f., ....\ .:' .-.,.: .. .:. ." ... .--:>- 1 ' .\.. ..' r cordials by 127 <)U ptEAU Lf! it III ,,-PPUte- IY ':' '-:' þs F ANCE::' .' t.1cd( S; , :::: SPECIALTY ;:::; I ::;:! :;:::;:. lbII ttI1ntW1 M,\NUFAtTUREO IN US A UNOER fQR 1), SUPPLIED 8y RECIPES 0.. T.., 6ACK L..ec.. THE WORLD RENOWNED AFTER OrNNER liQUEUR -!t ALCOHOLIC STRENGT" 80 PROOf' CONTENTS 415 OUART A tim -honored formula gives Cordials by Cointreau the superb flavor that is preferred by all who instinctively choose the finest COl1ltreal' Cordials are prodllced Í11 19 distinctive flavors 80 PROOF · PRODUCED AND BOTTLED IN U.S.A. BY COINTREAU LTD., PENNINGTON N J.